Quotes About Resemblance

Similarity is the shadow of difference. Two things are similar by virtue of their difference from another; or different by virtue of one's similarity to a third. So it is with individuals.

cadenassée. Les ceps nus, noirs, tordus, ressemblent

When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.

Dellarobia noted they were not a perfect physical match: Nelda plump and rosy-cheeked, her mother fine-boned. The resemblance blazed in their wide brown eyes and the way they nodded, the gnomy caps bobbing. Mother-daughter adventurers. She felt a pang of longing, as she often did in church. Everybody had a mother and a God; those were standard issue.

Those early spectacles were called roidi da ogli, meaning "disks for the eyes." Thanks to their resemblance to lentil beans—lentes in Latin—the disks themselves came to be called "lenses.

Op haar wangen zaten weer van die zwarte, natte strepen. Zo had er hij er ook wel eens uitgezien in de tijd dat hij in Alkmaar kranten had rondgebracht en met donkergrijs geworden vingertoppen in zijn ogen had gewreven. Het was een voorrecht om op haar te lijken.

One must choose one's enemies carefully, as one ends up resembling them.

Once again Leafpaw was struck by the powerful tabby's resemblance to some other cat; the thought bothered her like a tick she couldn't reach

Don't I know you?" the ThunderClan leader murmured. "I thought I knew a promising young warrior once. . . . He looked a lot like you.

The once-great country into which I'd been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn't matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it.

The once-great country into which I'd been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn't matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it.

Now, I think, few words more are needed to disclose the point of resemblance between a clockwork and an organism. It is simply and solely that the latter also hinges upon a solid – the aperiodic crystal forming the hereditary substance, largely withdrawn from the disorder of heat motion.

Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.

People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

I think Daniel Bryan reminds me a lot of my brother, Owen.

This is an exact replica of my chest.

People see me, and they think they went to college with me; there's no immediate identification.

ADMIRATION, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

The boy, a ten-year-old copy of the man...

Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.

This notary was a little man, completely round, round in every part. His head looked like a ball nailed onto another ball, supported by two legs that were so tiny and so short that they also closely resembled balls.

For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face and hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley.